Job Summary

The Enterprise Effects Division (EED) drives integration of Aerospace’s strategic capabilities across the national space enterprise. The divisionleveragesa broad array of engineering disciplines against a wide-ranging and dynamic portfolio of programs, customers, and national challenges. EED spans the capability lifecycle from concept and architecture design to performance assessment to application of space and space-enabled capabilities.

The Space Enterprise Design and Optimization Department (SEDOD) is in EED’s Enterprise Design Subdivision (EDS). We bring to bear expertise in a wide variety of fields to tackle tough problems and explore novel ideas, directly impacting the future of the space enterprise. We primarily focus on the performance modeling, analysis, and optimization of orbits, mission architectures, and acquisition portfolios. We are searching for someone to join a team of engineers, mathematicians, and scientists and grow our department of highly skilled technical specialists. Join us today and become a part of a culture that promotes innovation, growth, and technical excellence! 

As part of SEDOD and EDS, a technical leader on our staff will design and execute studies or development efforts for a portfolio of high-impact projects across the department and division. They will lead teams of analysts in support of these goals, providing guidance, structure, and advice as needed while also cultivating technical and leadership skills in the team. Additionally, they will leverage and grow their own domain knowledge by performing space and ground design, optimization, and analysis in support of architecture concept trade studies, requirements verification, analyses-of-alternatives, and performance modeling. They will also coordinate support to major department customers involving portfolio planning and integration of commercial capabilities into the national space enterprise. 

Work Model: This position is 100% onsite at Chantilly, VA. This position also offers a Hybrid work model with up to one day per week of remote work as business needs allow. 

What You’ll Be Doing  

• Leading teams of skilled analysts to conduct technical deep dives, trade studies, and assessments to satisfy project objectives and tasks 

• Independently and collaboratively providing subject matter expertise to program offices and government customers in the areas of space architecture design and optimization, trade space exploration, and portfolio analysis 

• Coordinating and organizing analysis efforts using modeling and simulation capabilities to capture both business and technical needs for enhancing national architectures with commercial portfolios  

• Planningand executingstudies, providing technical insights to customers, and supporting recommendations for customer research, development, and acquisition decisions

• Helping to sustain, develop, grow, and deploysimulation and analysis capabilities to support new functional areas for anexpandingcustomer base

• Supportingworkforce development by assistingmanagement with long-rangeplanning,business development,resource acquisition, recruiting, training, andmentorship

What You Need to be Successful  

Minimum Requirements: 

• B.S. degree in aerospace, astronautical, or mechanical engineering, physics, operations research, mathematics, or a related field of science or engineering  

• 6 or more years of relevant and progressive professional or academic experience  

• Significant history of consistent contribution to multiple substantial technical analytical or development projects through their successful fruition 

• History of leading teams delivering substantial technical analyses or development efforts in support of customer-driven projects 

• Background in one or more of the following: optimization techniques, orbital mechanics, satellite constellation performance modeling, or satellite orbit access analysis 

• Knowledge of Python, C, C++, Matlab, or another programming language 

• Willing to support occasional travel domestically 

• This position requires a Current or Active TS/SCI 

How You Can Stand Out  

It would be impressive if you have one or more of these: 

• A graduate degree in aerospace, astronautical, or mechanical engineering, physics, operations research, mathematics, or a related field of science or engineering  

• Knowledge of commercial space providers and capability offerings and experience assessing emerging commercial technologies 

• Work history in one of these specific national security space or intelligence mission areas: geo-spatial intelligence, signals intelligence, space surveillance, space protection, ground systems, or communications infrastructure supporting defense or intelligence capabilities. 

• Thoroughknowledge of Intelligence Community or U.S. Department of Defense business practices, acquisition policies, or space mission portfolios

• Extensive experience producing analyses and communicating results to various sized audiences

• Prior experience as the lead for matrixed teams witha wide variety ofskill sets to solve multi-disciplinary challenges